Are you a card carrying Socialist? I am.

[Bohemianwriter]

36. South side of Dublin is the posh area...

As far as In understand. When walking the footsteps of Patrick Kavanagh (in a literary sense), I lived mostly in hostels south of Liffey.
The last time I lived on the north side while working for XBox in Swords.

You also confirmed my observation about Ireland being half European and half American in an economic and to some extent cultural sense. Two McDonald's & two Burger Kings on the same side of O'Connell Street? Seriously?
I know that Irish cuisine is not internationally known, and Guinness is the best food from there, but two of each on both sides of the street? I guess drunkenness doesn't make one a fuzzy eater, eh?

When I was there, unemployment rate was 13%. 23% of the total active work force was migrant workers. Still not the disgusting anti-immigrant sentiment in the population though.

Belfast is a different beast altogether...